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3. The Era of Commercial Computers

“How do communists develop a computer for the US military?”
“That’s a misunderstanding. We do not have any communist employees."

Mauchly was also suspected and forced to leave the company, and it took him two years to get back to work. In the meantime, the company was in financial difficulty and it was eventually sold to Remington Rand in early 1950.

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“Get Bolsheviks out!”

In fact, the idea for the von Neumann architecture was initiated by Mockley and Eckert, but their credits were removed from von Neumann's paper, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, dated June 30, 1945. Their business was not successful, also due to political reasons.

In the 1950s, a number of companies began to make commercial computers. IBM produced punch card systems and also released its first computer, the IBM 701, in 1952.